Bob Bashara’s mistress says he manipulated her, told her he was divorced

A woman who dated Bob Bashara before his wife was found slain says the Grosse Pointe Park man first portrayed himself online as widowed and later told her he was getting divorced as they were building a life together.

But a few days after Bashara’s wife Jane was found dead in January, strangled in the back of her SUV in a Detroit alley, Rachel Gillett, 51, said she was shocked as she watched Bashara crying and mourning his wife’s loss on television.

“Obviously, first of all, that he was still married, that the divorce that I thought had happened in May didn’t happen,” Gillett said in an interview that first aired on WDIV Channel 4 Sunday night. “And that he’d lied to me, and I was just — I went in shock pretty much.”

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